By Lindsay Franz ~ Pumpkin season is upon us! Pumpkin flavored coffee, candles, lotions and even beer are everywhere as soon as the season of Continue reading Source: NLM
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Historical Films on Population Health and Family Planning
By Sarah Eilers ~ The National Library of Medicine has a rich new set of digital resources for researchers interested in the history of global Continue reading Source: NLM
International Film Festival Includes NLM Titles
By Sarah Eilers ~ Coming up September 24-26, the Healthy Scepticism Film Festival, a free virtual program organised by the Wellcome Trust, features a range Continue reading Source: NLM
Living Content: Digitizing Magnetic Media at NLM
By Sarah Eilers ~ “A whole collection of medical films, that sounds pretty interesting…and all the material is digitized?” Nearly every archivist has been asked Continue reading Source: NLM
Profiles in Science: Exploring the Stories of Scientific Discovery
More than 30,000 digitized primary source materials in 40 collections celebrating twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. Continue reading Source: NLM
Celebrating the Graduation Season
“The long looked for day has come and it is passed and all the toil is over for its attainment.” Continue reading Source: NLM
Revealing Data: The Psychological Clinic Explores IQ in 1911
By Ashley Bowen ~ Alfred Binet’s intelligence tests, originally developed in 1905 for the French public school system, took America by storm. The test promised Continue reading Source: NLM
“Facts and Inferences”—Digitizing Shadows from the Walls of Death Part 2
NLM has digitized and made publicly available for the first time, one of four known copies of Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Continue reading Source: NLM
“Facts and Inferences”—Digitizing Shadows from the Walls of Death Part 1
NLM has digitized and made publicly available for the first time, one of four known copies of Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Continue reading Source: NLM
PubMed Central: Visualizing a Historical Treasure Trove
By Tyler Nix, Kathryn Funk, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Erin Zellers A wealth of medical history awaits your exploration in the National Library of Medicine’s Continue reading Source: NLM
NLM’s Unique Early English Books Now Online
By Krista Stracka Earlier this summer, the National Library of Medicine announced the release of Unique English Imprints, pre-1800, a new collection available now through Continue reading Source: NLM
A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Swann
On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the Continue reading Source: NLM
A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—Suzanne Junod
On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine will host a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From Continue reading Source: NLM
A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—David Serlin
On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at Continue reading Source: NLM
A Tribute to Nirenberg—George Thoma
On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH Continue reading Source: NLM
Winter Wounds, Paper Dressing
By Sarah Eilers ~ It’s a black and white film, but it’s the white that overwhelms. A carpet of snow beneath Nordic pines, white uniforms Continue reading Source: NLM
The First Medical Book Printed in the New World
By Michael J. North Just over thirty years after the first printing press arrived in the New World from Spain, the first medical book was Continue reading Source: NLM
Preserving Nirenberg’s Genetic Code Chart
By Kristi Wright and Holly Herro The National Library of Medicine is home to a series of very important documents in scientific history—Marshall Nirenberg’s Genetic Continue reading Source: NLM
The Question of Rest for Women
By Susan Speaker The Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation is an extended version of an essay that won Dr. Jacobi the Harvard Medical Continue reading Source: NLM
(Re)Discovering The Great War
By Simon Chaplin and Jeffrey S. Reznick Commemorations of the centenary anniversary of World War I have begun in countries around the world. For the Continue reading Source: NLM